Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31020, John Farrow, Continental Mass. Mass. Sea Service

1345
SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Farrow, John
S. 31020
Mass.
Mass. Sea Service
CONTENTS

Maine
18.321
John Farrow
was in color Co in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Cooke of the Regt commanded by Col Bond in the Mass s Continental for 18 mo * Continental * Mass Sea Service
Enrolled on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 10 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of August 1832 and sent to
D. M. C. St. Waldoboro
Appears to the 4th of Mar ch 1832 $120.00 Pensant. allowance ending Septm 30.00
$150.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams, Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 11

12.822. John Farrow Maine
10 papers under act of 1818 wanted
2 of papers cost. 13.287 transmitted
Adm c 18 Mdi
D. M. Lobb Esq. Waldoboro Me

BRIEF in the case of John Farrow County of Lincoln in the State of Maine (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 75.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     In 17 He states that he was placed on the pension Roll under the act of March 18th 1818 and was subsequently struck from the same.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Waugh Examining Clerk.  March 13..1833.

John Farrow
"
12,822

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th June, 1832.
State Dis OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF LINCOLN, } ss. 1832 On this seventh day of August A.D. personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges or Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, John Farrow a resident of Bremen in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, aged seventy five years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.
That he made application for a Pension under the Act of Congress of 1818 and was thereupon placed on the Pension Roll and was subsequently struck from the same. He served in Capt. Cooks Company & Col Bonds Regiment in the Massachusetts line under the continental establishment - and at the time of his first application he resided in Bristol and Bremen as is more particularly mentioned & described in his original Declaration  statement  on the 9th day of April A.D. 1818 and for which said declaration his certificate of Pension numbered 13,287 was granted - and that he was a resident citizen of the U-States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that the said John Farrow further states that he is apprehensive that as it was only necessary to prove nine months service under the former act the evidence of his whole service which was in fact one year may not have been presented at the War Department - that he therefore declares that he was enlisted & served actually one year in the Regiment aforesaid - and that he enlisted in Capt. Caleb Tunnels Com y and Col Cargills Regiment of Massachusetts militia sometime in the month of May 1775 and served until sometime in the month of December following making six months service and received nothing but a verbal discharge - That some time in the month of October 1779 he went on board the States Ship State  as a volunteer of 16 Guns & served until sometime in

of a other 1779 entered on board an American Capt Little of 16 Guns & served as a volunteer until sometime in The month of November following making one month during which time he captured a ship of 18 & a sloop of 8 Guns and also recaptured a ship and sloop and that he was taken Prison during his first enlistment & carried to Quebec from thence sent in a cartel to New York having been det ained as a Prisoner for two years before he was exch ed. He further saith that he is known to William Hardy & Daniel Weston Esqs who are his neighbours and can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
John Garrison
Sworn to and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid.
John Ruggles Esq. 61.
We, William Hardy & Daniel Morton  a Clergyman , residing in the town of Brewer and state of Maine  residing in the hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Farnum who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Sullivan Hardy John Rugg by J. L. C. P. Daniel Weston
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Sullivan Hardy who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clas , resident in the town of Brimfield and that Daniel Preston who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and are both and is a credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John Nuggles Feb. 6 th 1871
I hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension. Attest, Mark B. Hill Clerk.
Attest Nath Coffin Clerk
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of _____

State of Maine.
LINCOLN, ss—I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that the annexed paper, signed by the Judge and attested by the Clerk, contains the original proceedings of the — Court of Common Pleas, at a special session thereof held at Waldoboro in said county, by the Hon. John Ruggles one of the Judges of said Court on the Seventh day of August A. D. 1832, in the matter of the application of John Farrow for a Pension. IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 14 day of August A. D. 1832.
Nathl Coffin CLERK.
day of

Wm. Farrow 3 Pension
John Farrow
Dec. 15 th 1828 Ref. to Com. on old. Pensions
Repealed
Jan. 21. 1829 Repealed - to be
Dec. 24 1829
Ref. to Com. on old. Pensions May 3. 1830 - Bill reported No. 24
Dec. 14 1831 Ref. to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions Name to be
inserted in the bill for Pension
Dec. 23 - 1831 Bill reported - No. 111
Section 5. to be
As Knapp - Wm. Farrow Rev. Pen.

Pet. of John Farrow

To the Hon ble The Senate, and the Hon ble House of Representatives, In Congress, assembled
Gentlemen, the undersigned petitioner who has been a pensioner, and received a pension of eight dollars p r month for the term of two years, then by virtue of an Act, enacted in Congress, some years since, to which Act, I was not willing to make oath that the property I was in possession of, was not worth more than two hundred dollars, was the sole cause of my being deprived, of the pension mentioned above, conscience, or modesty, forbid my making oath to the very act above mentioned, the proof of my services, must at present be in the pension office at the city of Washington, your petitioner is now bending at the age of  seventy three years, not qualified by hard labour to gain a livelihood for my self and consort, a few years younger than my self and both very feeble, my services for my country commenced in the year of seventeen hundred and seventy five and I continued in the service of my country, until the close of the revolution, seventeen hundred, and eighty three. That glorious period, for north America, the vicissitudes of fortune, has gentlemen, drove me to this request, I have been blist with six good sons and a just God, in whose hands are all our destinies, has seen cause, to take three of them hence, being lost at sea, two of the others being for themselves, which leaves me intirely destitute of help, I am now, apprehensive, without some aid for meritorious services - which has been proved, and now to be found on the files, in the pension office at Washington City, gentlemen I ask for no other remuneration than the restoration of the pension, which has been so long withheld from me and I ask the favour of this august body, to take me into their wise consideration & after the examination of the proofs of his evidence of services, now in the office at Washington, and compare them with any of the soldiers, heretofore supplicating, and say whether after all the long and faithful services, which I have performed for my country, I shall have my pension, restored, or to linger without. - it is all I ask, your petitioner as in duty bound, will ever pray
Oliver Farrow
Bristol, November. 28 th - 1828
John Farrow -

October 12, 1932
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BA-J/AWF aw John Farrow S. 31020
Mr. Edward K. Gould 375 Main Street Rockland, Maine.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Farrow of the Massachusetts Line, War of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 31020, based upon the Revolutionary War service of John Farrow.
The date and place of his birth are not given nor are the names of his parents stated.
He enlisted sometime in May, 1775 and served six months as private in Captain Caleb Turner's company in Colonel Cargill's Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted December 20, 1775 and served as a private in Captain Phineas Cook's company in Colonel Bond's Massachusetts regiment, in the fall of the same year he was taken prisoner on Lake Champlain, carried to Quebec sent in a cartel to New York where he remained until exchanged in about two years. In October, 1779 he went on board the state sloop "Captain Little" and served one month.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 9, 1818, at which time he was living in Bristol, Lincoln County, Massachusetts (District of Maine).
In 1829 he was residing in Bremen, Maine and was aged seventy-two years. At this time he referred to his maiden sister, Hannah Farrow, aged sixty-eight years.

his wife, Hannah, aged fifty-eight years; his son, Worcester, aged twenty years; and his daughter, Jane W., aged eighteen years. The soldier, John Farrow, stated that he had six sons, three of whom were lost at sea, the above noted Worcester is the only son whose name is given.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Assistant to Administrator

John Farrow
Bristol Maine
Mess rs : line
Col d Bond
Decem r 1775-19 th
Admitted
9 th Bristol

I John Harrar of Bristol in the County of Lincoln and Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts do hereby declare that in the month of Decem- ber last past the twentieth of said month in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and seventy five I enlisted to serve for twelve months from said December ago. serve as a private a- gainst the common enemy that I enlisted in Captain Phineas Cookes company in Colonel Bonds Regiment. that I served in said Regiment and company faithfully from said December untill either the month of September or October last following when I was taken prisoner on Lake Champlain by the enemy & carried to Quebec where I was paroled on parole , that I was on the continental establishment & in the Ma- the full term of nine months and upwards sachusetts line. I further that I have never received any pension under the United States thereby relinquish all claim to any before this time & I further testify and declare that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support & therefore respect- fully claim to be placed on the pension list of the United States as a private by vir- tue of the Act of Congress of March eighteenth one Thousand eight hundred and eighteen entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"
John Harrar

I Nathaniel Palmer of Bristol in the County of Lincoln State of Massachusetts late a soldier in Capt Cook's Company Twenty Fifth Massachusetts Regiment under the command of Col. Bona on the continental establishment in the revolutionary war - I testify and say that I am well acquainted with John Farnsworth a soldier in Capt Cook's Company in said Regiment now of Bristol in the County and State aforesaid and that he actually served the United States the full term of one year on the continental establishment in the revolutionary war against the common enemy - Nathaniel Palmer
State of Massachusetts County of Lincoln ss - April 9 th 1810
On this 9 th day of April A.D. 1810 Before
me personally appeared Nathaniel Palmer one of the judges of the C.C.C. Pleas for the 2 d Eastern Circuit in the State of Nathaniel Palmer and made solemn to the truth of the facts therein contained in the above deposition. My hand subscribed - Ebenezer Thatcher
Lincoln ss.
June 1 st 1810 - I hereby certify that Nathaniel Palmer the above deponent whose deposition above was taken by me the 9 th of April 1810 - is a credible witness
Ebenezer Thatcher

I William Keen of Bristol in the county of Lincoln State of Massachusetts late a soldier in Capt Cooks Company twenty fifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col Barron on the Continental establishment in the Revolutionary war. Testify and say that I am now
acquainted with John Faxon late a soldier in the Company and Regiment afterwards man of Bristol in the county and State aforesaid and that he acted as a soldier in the United States, the full term of one year on the continental establishment in the revolutionary war against the common enemy —
William Keen
State of Massachusetts County of Lincoln ss. April 9. 1810
On this 9 th day of April 1810 William Keen who made & subscribed the above deposition personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the 2 d Eastern Circuit in the State of Massachusetts — and made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein contained —
Ebenezer Thatcher
Lincoln ss. June 1 st 1819 —
I hereby certify that William Keen the above deponent is a credible Witness —
Ebenezer Thatcher

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that John Farrow , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Bristol , in the said County of Lincoln , in the District of Maine, on the ninth day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the Pension List of the United States, agreeably to the provision of an Act, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a Private Soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto  affixed this first day of June in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  nineteen
Ebenezer Thatche
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
LINCOLN, ss.
I the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the Honorable EBENEZER THATCHER , Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:—Dated at Wiscasset, in said County of Lincoln, this day of in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and
Evidence of the Subscriber's official authority as Judge of a Court of Record has been forwarded to the office of the War Department from the Secretary's office of the State of Massachusetts & is now on file there
Ebenezer Thatche

In letter Jany 21 1830 to Hon J. F. Wingate do Jany 30 1830 do 10 May 1830 see letter Oct. 27. 1831 to S. Hardy
In letter April 19. 1833 to claimant Pardon Pardon
In letter to Hon. J. F. Wingate
13.287 R
District of Maine
John Farrow
of Bristol in the state of D of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bond of the Mass'tts line, for the term of One Year & must see service & equipment
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of July 1818 and sent to Ebenezer Hatchard Thomaston D of Maine
  Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 86.89   Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 1819. 48.00   10 Mo. \frac{22}{30}  \frac{4}{31}   $134.89 
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued

I Samuel Palmer of W Dremen in the State of Maine County of Lincoln aged Ninety Four years or so do hereby say that John Farrom of Bristol in the County of Lincoln State aforesaid served with me in Capt Albin Drew Company Col Cargill's Regiment Massachusetts Militia from some time in the month of May 1775 as a Rank untill sometime in the month of December following and that he served the United States honestly & faithfully in said Company stationed at a Place called The Fort on Penna's Creek That he served with me in said Company for the space

of 6 months - and I that one never receives any thing but a verbal re-charge
Nathel Palmer
Maine Lincaln 55.
Augt. 24 th A.D. 1832. Then Penrose City appeared the above named Nathan Salmon and made back to the bulk of the above statement before
Hans G. Grotton } Justice } of the } Peace } for } Penn. Co.
Every Art of War The above is the name of a man of much and a great deal of knowledge. I have G. Proton.
Lincoln Co. I Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that Isaac G. Gorton Esq. now deceased was at the time above mentioned a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & qualified, and that the foregoing are his own proper handwriting to me well known. I also certify that all the papers connected with the seal hereto affixed are the original record as before certified. In testimony whereof I have set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this 30 th day of April 1833 -
Nathl. Coffin 72

H. R. 111.
DECEMBER 23, 1831.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow.
Mr. DENNY, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
A BILL
Granting a pension to John Farrow, a soldier of the revolution.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 3 the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, required to place 4 the name of John Farrow on the list of revolutionary pen- 5 sioners, and to pay to him eight dollars per month, com- 6 mencing on first day of January, Anno Domini one thousand 7 eight hundred and thirty.

Dep. of War, Oct. 1831. Pension Office.
War Dep. Referred
Pointe à la Motte Sept. 23
fr
Gen. Andrew Jackson:
President of United States."
Washington.

Barnes (formerly a part of the Town of Bristol) Maine;
Sept 8th. 1831.
To the President of the United States; Sir,
It is with no small degree of diffidence & doubt I now presume to address you, but the following statement of facts may perhaps be an apology for my presumption. There is now living in said Barnes, an aged veteran of the Revolution named John Parrow. He entered the service of U.S. in '76, served under Col. Bonds when taken prisoner, sent to Quebec, was once captured by the Indians, suffered much, as the report of all acquainted with Mr. Parrow in those times which tried men's souls, he was a brave & faithful soldier, in his country's service. The said John Parrow was once while in the U.S. service taken prisoner, paroled, sent to N.Y. in a cart, and travelled thence to Boston, ragged & barefooted, to Boston and was there 200 Miles from home. I have often shed tears to hear the same old man relate his sufferings in the Army. - It has been stated to the said Parrow by two gentlemen recently from the other City of N.Y. that the Revolutionary soldiers

who write to you (as the Chief of their Nation) and and prove they have swords in the U.S. army that you order them to receive their Pensions agreeably to the law of passed (8. March) 1818. which has induced the said Warrows to request me to address this letter to "Head Quarters," as he presumes the means of your Constituents will not meet with repugnance for petitioning for redress. — The said John Warrows signed his claim under the said Act of 1818; received his Pension Certificate (p. 13. 26 th ) received two years Pension (only) because he had an old house & a little poor land said to be worth a little more than $200. — His whole property was val- ued by appraisers under Oath at p. 13. 30, at 400 Dollars. Mr. Warrows despised to use any un- fair means (as is presumed many have) to ob- tain his Pension. The General Comr. Tucker is of opinion the said Warrows absolutely needs and deserves to have some further bounty for his former faithful services in the Army of the U.S. in 1776, 77 & 78. and has written several times to Members of Congress to try to have it restored to his former Pension of $18 per month (only). The said John Warrows is now bass'd labor, and feels the effect of serving his country — enduring Fatigue, Hunger, wet & cold, to support its Independence has an

aged companion and a maiden sister to support, and if ever a man needed who as a result of his always been a steady hard-laboring man & prudent judicious N. H. class, and well deserves it too.
Should this communication answer no other purpose, I hope it may be a means to call your attention to the subject at the coming Session of Congress. That you will recommend to the National Legislature the deserving & needy Soldiers of the Revolution. That something may be given those who seemed to put their property under cover to obtain their Pensions. But just about to pay the debt of nature need something to ease the bed of decrepit age & be able to bless our Ruler with the latest breath. I am requested by the above Farrow, to humbly ask that this letter may receive an answer, that he may know why he cannot receive something for his past services - as well as others. By causing an answer to be sent to this you much oblige your most ob t & very humble Servt.
William Hardy
for John Farrow.
P.S. In 1830. Judge Smith & Judge Bailey were both of opinion that said Farrow would be then soon restored to his pension. — S. H.

State of Maine.
LINCOLN, ss....At a Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Wadsworth within for the County of Lincoln, on the fourth Tuesday of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty. by the Hon. Samuel E. Smith Judge of said Court.
The following application & schedules & certificates are filed in Open Court on the first day of the Term in Lincoln ss.
On this twentysixth day of March in the year 1829 personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and im- prisonment," and being a Court of Record for said State , State , John Farnum aged seventythree years, resident in Meppen lately a part of Bristol in said County and State  said State , who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt. Cook in the Regiment commanded by Colonel L. Pond in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the day & month not recollected day of A. D. 1818 , and on which said declaration his cer- tificate of Pension, numbered 13,287 was granted. And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my prop- erty, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
John Farnum
Sworn to and declared, on the 25th day of March A. D. 1829. }
BEFORE Sam E. Smith, Justice Court of Com. Pleas. Maine

I, John Farnsworth, within named, on oath declare, that by reason of old age, debility & infirmities & also by reason of a dysentery with which I am frequently afflicted, I am unable to attend the next Term of the Court of Com. Pleas for this County at Warren, without great inconvenience & danger to my health. John Farnsworth
March 25. 1829. Sworn to before me.
Sam d E. Smith, J. C. C. Pleas, Maine.
I Samuel E. Smith, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Maine, do hereby certify that the above named John Farnsworth from debility & general infirmity the effect of very advanced age, according to his oath, is unable to attend the Court of which I am a Justice and I do think from present appearances he will be unable without danger to his health to attend the Court above named at its next sessions in this County, I have therefore in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the first of March 1823 attended upon him & administered the foregoing oaths.
Sam d E. Smith J. C. C. Pleas.
Filed pursuant to Act of Congress of March 3rd 1823

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Real - 75 acres of poor broken land, rocky in Bremen, on which I now live, a one story house thereon, old & decayed, needing repairs. An old barn, rotten & decayed. One Pew in the Meeting House.  Personal - Farming tools - one colt - one ox - two cows - one heifer - three calves - twelve sheep - two swine - a set of an old Sleigh 24 years old - a little old furniture.
John Farrow
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me who, by occupation am a farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of old age, infirmity & general debility.
John Farrow
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Hannah Farrow my wife 58 in general health   Hannah Farrow a maiden sister 68 in poor health & feeble   Worcester Farrow my son 20 in common health   Jane W. Farrow my daughter 18 in poor health  
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
John Farrow
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I Nathan Coffin Clerk of all the Judicial Courts
for said county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Four hundred forty-eight dollars & 50 cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty seventh day of April A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty
Nath. Coffin.
Clerk of the said Court for the County of Lincoln.

Petition of John Farnsworth.
Comm. on Revol. Pensions
Stannardagh to Rev. Pan,

I Hereby certify that the accompanying page numbered from one to two are truly copied from the originals in the Department of War.
Be it remembered , that James Lewis Edwards , who has signed the foregoing certificate, is charged with the general superintendence of the Pension Business in the Department of War, and with the safe keeping of the Rolls, Books, Papers, and Documents, on file in said Department, in relation to said business; and that to his attestations full faith and credit are and ought to be given. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed, on this 30 day of January — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty thirty
J. H. Eaton
Secretary of War.
House of Reps — Feb. 3. 1890 —
I can state from unquestionable authority that John Farnow, a revolutionary soldier, has become impoverished in his circumstances & very infirm in health since the date of his first application for a pension. J. H. ... ingate

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I Nathaniel Palmer of Bristol in the County of Lincoln State of Massachusetts late a Soldier in capt. Cook's company twenty fifth Massachusetts Regiment under the Command of Col. Bond on the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War, testify and say that I am well acquainted with John Farrow late a Soldier in capt. Cook's company in said Regiment now of Bristol in the County and State aforesaid and that he actually served the United States the full term of one year on the Continental establishment in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy. (signed) Nath l Palmer
State of Massachusetts } County of Lincoln ss. Apr. 9. 1818 } On the 9 th day of Apr. A.D. 1818 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the H. C. P. Pleas for the 2 d Eastern Circuit in the State aforesaid Nath l Palmer and made solemn Oath to the truth of the facts contained in the above Deposition by him subscribed. (signed) Eben r Thatcher
Lincoln ss. June 1 st 1819 I hereby Certify that Nath l Palmer whose Deposition above was taken by me the 9 th Apr 1818 is a credible Witness. (signed) Eben r Thatcher

2.
I William Keene of Bristol in the County of Lincoln State of Massachusetts late a Soldier in Capt. Cookes Company twentyfifth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Bond on the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War, testify and say that I am well acquainted with John Farrow late a Soldier in Company one Regiment aforesaid, now of Bristol in the County and State aforesaid and that he actually served the United States as a Soldier the full period of one year on the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War against the common Enemy. (Signed) William Keene
State of Massachusetts
County of Lincoln S.S. Apr. 9. 1818 }
On the 9 th day of Apr. 1818
William Keene who made an subscription to the above Deposition, personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the C. C. C. Pleas in the 2 d Eastern Circuit in the State of Massachusetts, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the facts therein contained (Signed) Eben Thatcher
Lincoln S.S. June 1 st 1819.
I hereby certify that William Keene the above Deposition is a credible Witness.
(Signed) Eben Thatcher

rec d 8 May 1830
James L. Edwards Esq
Pension office
Washington D.C.

Home of Reps May 5. 1830
Mr. J. Fleming presents his re- spect, to Mr. Eddy and & hands him the new certificates of John Farnsworth a revolutionary soldier, and order thanks Mr. Eddy to return the proper pen- sion certificate -

John Farrow

Waldoboro, Maine April 18. 1883.
Sir,
I herewith forwards you the old Pension certificate of Mr John Farron which should have accompanied his Declaration under the act of the 4th June 1831 -
I am Sir, very Respectfully, your Col: Servant D. M. H. B. B.
Hon James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
P.S. Also forwards all papers in relation to said old Declaration &c
D. M. H. B. B.

War Department Pension Office January 21. 1820
Sir,
In reply to your letter respecting John Farrow, I have to inform you that the name of Mr Farrow can be restored to the pension list, provided he will comply with the regulations under the Act of May 1. 1820. Copies of his papers can be furnished you if you wish them, but the originals cannot, agreeably to the regulations, be sent out of the Office. I herewith enclose a blank form for Mr Farrow's guidance in making his declarations. The instructions contained in the notes thereto attached must be strictly complied with.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully
Yr. Obedt. Servt
J. L. Edwards
Hon. J. F. Wingate House of Representatives

John Farrow
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of Sept next, in Portland Bk at the Cumberland Bank
RECORDED

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
John Sarrow late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the Ninth day of April one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Twentieth day of July one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.

Waldoboro Maine April 20. 1833
Sir:-
I herewith return you the Papers of John Farrow; - the Clerk of the Court having authenticated them, and, certified to the Official character, & signature of the Justice who took the deposition. - Mr Farrow avers, that, he knows of no person now living, who can testify to his service on board the States Sloop Capt Little of 16 Guns; & consequently cannot produce proof of her being a public armed vessel - he avers that she was called the "States Sloop"; and, in the public service . - His old Pension Certificate transmitted to your Department a few weeks since -
I am Sir, very Respectfully, Your Ob: Servant D. M. M c Guire
Hon J. S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington city

Miss M. H. M. El.
31020 Ray INVALID.
File No. 31020
John Harrow Rev Rev War
Act: James  7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 131
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Apr 1903 Mil. Hist. to Sarah M. Ginn, 127 re Charlestown, Mass.
1907 Mch. 14. History to John J. Fonda
1931-Mch 9-High L. Mrs. R. E. Foulke auct.
1932-Oct 12- list- L. Edward H. Bald auct.

Charlestown Mass.
April 10. 1896
To the Hon. Wm. Lockren Com. of pensions Washington D.C. Dear Sir.
At the State House in Boston Mass. several weeks ago I was directed to you, as being able through your office to fur- nish information which I could not get there, consequently I wrote you and having recd. no ans. I will make a second attempt thinking it may not have reached you. I am looking up the war record of Mr John Farrai a ser-

olutionary soldier wishing par- ticularly to learn the Reg't & Co. in which he served, and as he was a pensioner it seems to be the only door open for me At the S.A. in Boston Mass I find a John Farrar, but the town from which he went is not given, neither the Reg. or Co. Gen. Scott being the Commander. For several years before his death he lived in Washington D.C. He died and was buried there he was born in Bristol, then Mass now Me. Will you please inform me if his name is recorded there among the pensioners and greatly oblige
Yours very gratefully
Miss Sarah M. Kim No 12 Trenton St Charleston Mass

Ms. A. 9. 2. 16
Rev. Mr. ...
Charlestown Mass
March 22/95
To the Hon. Wm. Lockhart,
Dear Sir I have been di- rected to you as the source through which I may obtain information as to a Mr John Parrar who served seven years in revolutionary war. I wish to learn the Reg. and Co. in which he served. At the State House in Boston I find a John Parrar private in Scott's company but the term from which

he enlisted is not given, and as I do not know, do not dare settle on this man as my grandfather, there being others in the different branches of the Farrar family by that name. He drew a pension, and by that, I think he may be identified.
This pension was made out to Mr. John Farrar, in his last days, living in Washington Maine and where he died also, he col- lected I think at Waldoboro, a town near.
At the breaking out of the war, he was living in the town, now called Bristol Me. but at that time Maine.
He was the youngest of seven sons who served in the war and was but fifteen years of age when he entered.

Please send the desired information, or as near to it as you can get and greatly oblige yours very respectfully
Miss Sarah M. Ginn
No. 12. Trenton St.
Charleston,
Mass.

MRS. R. E. FOWLE 2 PERKINS AVENUE READING, MASSACHUSETTS
February 13, 1931
Pension Office Dept. of Interior Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
For my D. A. R. application papers it is necessary for me to know the volume and page number giving information about a John Farrow  Farrow who was born in Bristol, Maine, April twenty-fifth, seventeen fifty-six. He applied for a pension April 9, 1818.
I have the following

MRS. R. E. FOWLE 2 PERKINS AVENUE READING, MASSACHUSETTS
in formation from the files in the Adjutant General's Office in Augusta, Maine.
Last Name Service Rank Age County 35 d Farnow, John Mass. Line Private 77 Lincoln
I shall appreciate any help in this matter.
Very truly
Christie Fowle

Weymouth, Mass., March 1, 1907.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D. C.
In the Printed List of Pensioners 1820 there is the name of John Farrow of Maine, Massachusetts Line
This man, or some other , appears in the U. S. Pensioners of 1835 as made a pensioner under the Law of Mch 18, 1818 and dropped from the roll under the act of May 1, 1820.
I am very anxious to get from your records anything that will identify any soldier named John Farrow , Farrar , or however spelled , who ever lived in the State of Maine
Very Respectfully,
John J. Lord, 87 Commercial Street Weymouth, Mass.

DEPARTMENT OF MAINE SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR
EDWARD K. GOULD, Department Secy.-Treas. 375 MAIN STREET
Rockland, Maine
Sept. 26, 1932
Commissioner of Pensions Rev. & 1812 Wars Section Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly give me the date from the pension papers in the case of John Farrow of the Mass. line in the Revolution, a resident of Lincoln County, Mass.
Yours truly,
Signature ? Edward K. Gould.
EKG/EN.

O. W. & N. Division.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
P. S.
Bureau of Pensions,
M.E.C.
Washington, D. C.,
April 19, 1895.
Miss:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of --- John Farrow --- a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. May 1775 6 mos. Pvt. Caleb Turner Gargill Mass. Dec. 1775 12 mos. Pvt. Phineas Cook Fond Mass.
In October, 1779 enlisted and served 1 month as a seaman on a vessel commanded by a Capt. Little.
During this service he was taken prisoner on Lake Champlain and carried to Quebec where he was paroled.
Battles engaged in,
None.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Probably, Bristol, Maine.
Date of application for pension, April 9, 1813.
Residence at date of application, Bristol, Maine.
Age at date of application, Sixty-one years.
Remarks: In 1862 he was residing in Bremen, Maine.
Very respectfully,
Miss Sarah M. Ginn,
12 Trenton St.,
1904000
Charlestown, Mass.
1829 1828 1857 Commissioner.

Geo. Little 1924 "Protector"
Luther Little Hosta "Ragson"

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190___
File 31,020 Per.
In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of John Farrow a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     2. 19. 75 4 years Pvt. Philip Cook Boond Mass.   returned to me in a cartel - paroled after 2 years -   1. May 75 6 mos. Pvt. Caleb Turner (Saml) Cargill   Oct. 79 1 mo. discharged "Galt Little"   cap. 2 -  
Battles engaged in,  Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Date of application for pension, 1882  Residence at date of application, Brattleboro, Vt. 1882  Age at date of application, 68  72  date of birth not stated  Remarks: 1884 - widow sister Hannah Farrow age 68 wife Hannah 58, dau. Jane 77, 38, and Worcester 20 only one of six sons whose names & ages are mentioned
Very respectfully,  1828 six sons  3  lost at sea
Commissioner.  1828  182  1758

March 9, 1931
Mrs. R. E. Fowle 2 Perkins Avenue Reading, Massachusetts
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section AWF:MLB
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 31020, that John Farrow enlisted in May, 1775 and served six months as a private in Captain Caleb Turner's company, Colonel Cargill's Massachusetts regiment. He enlisted December 20, 1775 and served as private in Captain Phineas Cook's company, Colonel Bond's Massachusetts regiment; in the fall of the same year he was captured on Lake Champlain, carried to Quebec and held about two years when he was paroled. He enlisted in October, 1779 and served one month on the State sloop, "Captain Little".
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 9, 1818, at which time he was living in Bristol, Lincoln County, District of Maine.
In 1829 he was residing in Bremen, Maine and was aged seventy-two years. At this time he referred to his maiden sister, Hannah Farrow, aged sixty-eight years; his wife, Hannah, aged fifty-eight years; daughter, Jane W., aged eighteen years, and to a son, Worcester, aged twenty years. The soldier stated that he had six sons, of whom three were lost at sea. The above noted Worcester is the only son whose name is given.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner